Re: automake test driver for Guile scheme patch review

2023-11-22 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi, Timothy Sample writes: > Hello, > > [Dropping Karl since we are no longer discussing Automake maintenance.] > > Maxime Devos writes: > >> [What about] discoverability, ease of updating the test driver, >> clarity, unbundling and the goals of Freja Nordsiek? > > Maybe Guile should adopt the

Re: automake test driver for Guile scheme patch review

2023-11-22 Thread Freja Nordsiek
I will check out the actively-maintained one from Guix, and likely use it. Almost certainly better than the mess I wrote. Best regards, Freja On 21/11/2023 22:45, Karl Berry wrote: Thanks for the replies. MD> but I don't think it should be in Automake, because then the test

Re: automake test driver for Guile scheme patch review

2023-11-21 Thread Maxime Devos
Op 22-11-2023 om 00:02 schreef Timothy Sample: Hello, [Dropping Karl since we are no longer discussing Automake maintenance.] Maxime Devos writes: [What about] discoverability, ease of updating the test driver, clarity, unbundling and the goals of Freja Nordsiek? Maybe Guile should

Re: automake test driver for Guile scheme patch review

2023-11-21 Thread Timothy Sample
Hello, [Dropping Karl since we are no longer discussing Automake maintenance.] Maxime Devos writes: > [What about] discoverability, ease of updating the test driver, > clarity, unbundling and the goals of Freja Nordsiek? Maybe Guile should adopt the script as ‘guild test-am’ or somesuch.

Re: automake test driver for Guile scheme patch review

2023-11-21 Thread Maxime Devos
Op 21-11-2023 om 18:33 schreef Maxime Devos: I think that doing nothing other than closing that patch would be a reasonable course of action.  :) And how is "doing nothing" supposed to help with discoverability, ease of updating the test driver, clarity, unbundling and the goals of Freja

Re: automake test driver for Guile scheme patch review

2023-11-21 Thread Karl Berry
Thanks for the replies. MD> but I don't think it should be in Automake, because then the test driver is harder to update Fine by me :). MD> I don't have any advise on how to get the automake maintainers Sorry, I should have made it clear that I am, effectively, the automake

Re: automake test driver for Guile scheme patch review

2023-11-21 Thread Maxime Devos
Op 20-11-2023 om 17:16 schreef Timothy Sample: Hi, Maxime Devos writes: Op 19-11-2023 om 18:17 schreef Karl Berry: Hello Guile folk - back in May 2016, Mathieu Lirzin submitted a patch to add a test driver for Guile Scheme to Automake.

Re: automake test driver for Guile scheme patch review

2023-11-20 Thread Timothy Sample
Hi, Maxime Devos writes: > Op 19-11-2023 om 18:17 schreef Karl Berry: > >> Hello Guile folk - back in May 2016, Mathieu Lirzin submitted a patch >> to add a test driver for Guile Scheme to Automake. >> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2016-05/msg0.html >> >> It was never

Re: automake test driver for Guile scheme patch review

2023-11-19 Thread Maxime Devos
Op 19-11-2023 om 18:17 schreef Karl Berry: Hello Guile folk - back in May 2016, Mathieu Lirzin submitted a patch to add a test driver for Guile Scheme to Automake. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2016-05/msg0.html It was never committed. It's been seven+ years, so

Re: automake test driver for Guile scheme patch review

2023-11-19 Thread Freja Nordsiek
Dear Karl Berry and Guilers, I've been considering using Guile for a project as the next step after my initial proof of concept in shell script and very much would be using Automake's parallel-test harness, like this is for. The tests I am writing now would not change (run program, check

automake test driver for Guile scheme patch review

2023-11-19 Thread Karl Berry
Hello Guile folk - back in May 2016, Mathieu Lirzin submitted a patch to add a test driver for Guile Scheme to Automake. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2016-05/msg0.html It was never committed. It's been seven+ years, so before doing so, I wanted to check if it was still